Improvement in seeding-machines



A. M. PENISTON.

SEEDING MACHINE.

No. 84,163. Patented Jan. 14,1862.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDING-MACHIN'ELS Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 34,163, dated January 14, 1962.

[*0 all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, A. M. PENISTON, of Weilington, in the county of Lafayette and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seeding Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear,

and exact description of the same, reference be- 'arrangement,-with a seed-planter substantially such as hereinafter described, of the rock-shaft, plug or ball valves, lever with curved slot, and the clutch, all in the manner described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A represents a seedplanter frame mounted upon front wheels, a a, and hind wheels, I) b, and with a drivers seat, B, over the hind axle of the wheels I) b. The frame has two inner side beams, c d, on each side of its center, and between the two innermost beams a swinging tongue, 0, is arranged. The beams c 0 have shovel-plows e or sharp colters f attached to their under side, and the beams rid-have moldboard or covering plows similarly attached to them. 'The colters are used in planting sod or prairieland.

On the top of the frame, directly over the beams c c, semicircular hoppers g g are arranged, and in rear of these hoppers funnel shaped conductors h h are provided, these conductors communicating with seed-tubes z' i, which extend down through the beams c c and terminate near the base of the shovel-plows e e.

In each of the hoppers a cylinder,j, with cups j, is arranged so as-to lift grain therefrom and deposit it in the funnel-conductors. The cylinders of the two hoppers are connected by means of a revolving shaft, k, said shaft extending across the frame, and being driven by means of a crossed belt; I, which leads from a pulley, m, onthe axle of the hind wheels to a loose pulley, n, on the shaft It.

In rear of the shaft k a rocking shaft, 0, is arranged, the angular arms 12 p of said shaft overhanging the funnel-conductors, and having plug or ball valv'es q q suspended from them. The ball-valves are raised andlowered by. the rocking shaft, when said shaft is operated by means of a hand-lever, 1'. When the valves are raised the seed deposited in the funnel-conductors passes immediately out of the conductors into the ground, and consequently is planted in drills;' but when the valves are lowered the escapeof the seed through the conductors is prevented, and therefore if it is desired to plant in hills it can be done, for by retaining the seed in theconductors until the machinemoves from one hill to another a sutl'icient quantity for each hill will thus be collected, and by periodically raising the valves.

the same will readily find an exit and fall into the hill prepared'for its reception. The lever r has its fulcrum in the rock-shaft at-s, and also at t t, and one of its ends is constructed with a curved slot, a, so as to encircle a sliding clutch,v,as represented. The clutch gears with the pulley n by mea'ns of notches in the hub of the pulley and projections onthe face of the clutch.

Near the frontof the drivers seat B a notched stop-bar, 20, is provided. This bar holds the rear'end of the lcverr in place after the valves q q or the clutch v has been adjusted.

From theforegoing description itwill be seen that by depressing the lever to-the position sh ownin red,-Fig. 2, the plug-valves willclose up the passage at the bottom of the funnel-conductors, and that the seed deposited into the conductors will be retained until a sufiicient quantity for a hill shall have been collected, by which time the machine will have moved from one hill to another. At this stage the valves are raised by the lever and the seed allowed to descend intothe hill. Thus the machine answersibrplantingin hills. Itwill also be seen that by raising the lever the, valves will be lifted out of their seats and the escape 'ot' the seed allowed.

It will further be seen that by holding'the valves elevatedthe seed will be unobstructed, seed-planter substantially such as herein deand therefore, instead'of being planted inhills, scribed, of the rock-shaft o p p,'plug or ball as just described, will'be planted in drills. valves q .q, lever r, with a curved slot, u, and Itwill also be seen that by movingthe lever the sliding clutch v, as and for the purposes laterally the clutch will be thrown out of gear herein set forth. and the planting stopped. A. M; PENISTON,

What 1 (names my invention, and desire to Witnesses: secure by Letters Patent, is- M. J AGKSON,

The arrangement and eombinatiomwith a G. D. KAVANAUH. 

